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I had the chance to sit down Friday afternoon with the president of the National Education Association, which represents 3.2 million educators working at every level, from pre-school to university graduate programs. …

Obama has tapped Chicago Public Schools chief Arne Duncan to be his new secretary of education. Duncan is a Harvard grad who’s run the third-largest school district in the country for the past seven years. He was an education advisor for Obama during the presidential campaign. …

As a journalist, I support the Freedom of Information Act and the idea of open-records laws in general. Still, I have to admit that I was a little troubled at the idea of posting a database of salaries of Washington school employees on our Web site — something we did during the Bellevue teachers’ strike. …

School resumed today for Bellevue’s 16,000 public-school students. Over the weekend, the teachers’ union voted to accept the district’s final contract offer — a 5 percent wage increase over three years, maintaining the district’s health care funding system and adding $37,000 to cover increases in health care premiums. …

Time is running out for the Northshore School District and its teachers union to agree on a contract. The two sides have been in negotiations since last spring, and though they’ve agreed on some elements of a new contract, Northshore Education Association officials have said a strike is still possible. …

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